Car-shopping marketplace and dealer reputation site Cars.com honored more than 1,000 dealers throughout North America with its annual Dealer of the Year Awards. The company said the winners were selected based on more than 1.3 million online consumer reviews submitted in 2024 according to drivers of repeat and referral business, including average star rating, total […] [Read More]

Flexcar is growing in Nashville. The month-to-month flexible car lease company announced an expansion in Tennessee’s capital, opening of a new hub for its operations in the region. “Nashville has adopted Flexcar in a big way,” president and chief operating officer Ryan Quinlan said in a news release, “and this expansion is a direct result […] [Read More]

Tom Freiert, whose experience in automotive technology and remarketing includes helping start up a company, has joined VUMO AI as director of sales, the company announced. Freiert’s career includes 11 years with Black Widow Imaging, a provider of automated vehicle imaging technology he co-founded in 2012. Freiert filled several roles in the company, including director […] [Read More]

Hyundai Auto Canada is killing it where selling certified pre-owned vehicles is concerned. Its CPO penetration rate this year is topping 50% and sales are strong. The reason, Hyundai Auto Canada manager of CPO and remarketing Charles Plewes told Auto Remarketing Canada, is the automaker’s Hyundai Promise Certified Pre-Owned program. “The dealers have really embraced it.” ... [Read More]

Steve Levine of Ignite Consulting Partners made another appearance on the Auto Remarketing Podcast for two reasons. Levine shared how his second book came together to help dealerships with their compliance responsibilities. He also previewed the combined training conferences next month in Las Vegas: BHPH United and Compliance Unleashed. Listen to the conversation in the […] [Read More]

Paul Gillespie has been involved with banking and auto finance for more than 40 years. He was an executive at AmeriCredit when General Motors purchased the company 15 years ago to form GM Financial. Gillespie’s installment contract is about to reach maturity, so to speak, as he’s preparing for retirement this spring. He recently appeared […] [Read More]

Repossession volume in the wholesale vehicle market climbed the last three years and reached pre-pandemic levels in 2024, according to January data from Cox Automotive. After hitting 1.7 million units in 2024, annual repo volume at auction is likely to remain at that level through 2029, Cox predicts. Amid these sustained heights of repo volume making their way to wholesale channels comes an important reminder: the process a vehicle undertakes through recovery is “complicated and full of friction, with many business verticals playing roles in the same space, grinding gears.” ... [Read More]

Pick a recent list that recaps positive attributes about brands and vehicles, and you’ll likely find Toyota, Tesla and Honda at or near the top of those highlights. Now you can add Black Book’s first Brand Value Index (BVI) of 2025 to those evaluations. Toyota led the way followed by Tesla and Honda in the […] [Read More]

PureCars is again at the top of Google’s list. The customer data and marketing platform for auto dealers, has been named as a 2025 Google Premier Partner, the highest tier of the Google Partners program. PureCars said Google awards the Premier Partner designation to the top 3% of Google Partners participants in their countries, recognizing […] [Read More]

Greater Rockford Auto Auction’s 51st birthday party will be a big one. The independent auto auction in Rockford, Ill., will celebrate with a two-day GRAA’lapalooza Anniversary Sale, set for June 24-25. The event will feature a concert by American alternative rock band Gin Blossoms, whose 1992 major label debut album, New Miserable Experience, produced the […] [Read More]